Safety Marketing Group (SMG), the world's largest consortium of independently owned safety equipment distributors, today released names of the Annual Partnership Conference Award Winners. These Awards includes Peak Performer Awards (Supplier and Distributor of the year), JMA (Joint Marketing Agreement) Awards, Award of Excellence, and GOLD Distributors and Suppliers.

The winners were announced during the Joint Session at the group’s annual conference held at the Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, Nevada on April 27, 2015.

They are as follows:

JMA (Joint Marketing Agreement) Award

• DiVal Safety (Distributor)
• Protective Industrial Products (Supplier)

Supplier of the Year: Peak Performers

• 3M
• Capital Safety
• Cordova Safety Products
• Ergodyne & Basic Issue
• National Safety Apparel
• Protective Industrial Products
• Radians
• Tingley Rubber
• West Chester Holdings, Inc.

Distributor of the Year: Peak Performers

• Alliance Safety, Inc.
• Amerisafe
• Arbill
• Dooley Tackaberry, Inc.
• Emergent Safety Supply (SSI and ANI Safety)
• Essential Safety Products
• Fremont Industrial Corporation
• Guardian Safety and Supply, LLC
• Lone Star Safety
• Midwestern Safety Equipment Co., Inc.
• OBBCO Safety & Supply
• Quad City Safety, Inc.
• Rocky Mountain Industrial Supply, Inc.
• Saf-T-Gard International
• Safety Products, Inc.

Award of Excellence

• Rayhsa Vallejo
• Seguridad Regiomontana

Supplier Best Practice

• Honeywell Analytics

Gold Suppliers

• 3M
• Accuform
• ACME United Corp Pac-Kit & PhysiciansCare
• Brady-SPC
• Capital Safety
• Chicago Protective Apparel
• Cordova Safety Products
• Ergodyne
• GASCO
• Honeywell Analytics
• Kimberly Clark
• Lakeland
• National Safety Apparel
• ORS Nasco
• Protective Industrial Products
• Radians
• Sellstrom Manufacturing
• Stanco
• Tingley
• West Chester
• ZOLL Medical

Gold Distributors

• Alliance Safety, Inc.
• American Cleanstat, LLC
• Amerisafe
• Arbill
• Broner Glove & Safety Company
• Day Star Safety Corporation
• DiVal Safety Equipment, Inc.
• Dooley Tackaberry, Inc.
• Emergent Safety Supply (SSI and ANI Safety)
• Essential Safety Products
• Fremont Industrial Corporation
• Guardian Safety and Supply, LLC
• Industrial Safety Products
• Lone Star Safety
• Medsafe
• Midwestern Safety Equipment Co., Inc.
• National Safety
• OBBCO Safety & Supply
• Olympic Glove & Safety Company, Inc.
• Pro-Am Safety, Inc.
• Quad City Safety, Inc.
• Quest Environmental Safety Products, Inc.
• Rayco Safety, Inc.
• Rocky Mountain Industrial Supply, Inc.
• Safety Products, Inc.
• Safety Services, Inc.
• Safety Source Northeast
• Safety Source, Inc.
• SafetyWear, div. of Sullivan Brough, Inc.
• Saf-T-Gard International
• Stagg Safety Equipment, Inc.
• Wise El Santo/Reis/Zink Safety

5 Year Gold Distributors and Suppliers:

• Olympic Glove
• Quad City Safety
• Safety Source, Inc.
• Saf-T-Gard
• GASCO
• Cordova Safety Products

About the Safety Marketing Group

The Safety Marketing Group, located in Brooksville, Florida, is a network of dominant industrial safety equipment distributors in North America. Member companies are unified to furnish dedicated customer service and flexibility provided best by independent entrepreneurs, owned and operating on a local level. SMG is a corporation, organized as an industry cooperative, which is focused on group purchasing and group marketing of quality safety equipment products. SMG represents 55+ Distributor Members, 45+ Preferred and Associate Suppliers and over $900 Million in annual sales.

45 + SMG Suppliers were represented and 55 + SMG Distributors were in attendance at this year’s conference; 300 + Safety Specialists were on hand for the annual Business Meeting, which was held on Monday, April 28, 2014.  The following two days were “suite to suite” meetings for all of our Distributor and Suppliers.

SMG is a Cooperative which is Member Owned by our Independently Owned Safety Equipment Distributors with purchasing power of $900,000,000.00.

For more information on SMG please go to www.smgna.com.